Interdisciplinary American Studies approach to the historical study of a small milling and farming community in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County (before 1784, Philadelphia County), Pennsylvania, ten miles from Philadelphia. Lower Merion was settled in 1682 as part of the Welsh Quaker migration to the so-called Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania. Beginning of 1749 Germans settled on Mill Creek and introduced paper making. The Problem. To trace the history of a narrowly defined area over an extended period to show cultural change by largely focusing upon transitions in its material culture, especially house forms, and its technological developments. One goal was to seek a correlation between social change and the architecture and industry of...
This paper is a study of Abraham Funk, a Shenandoah Valley Mennonite tombstone carver active in Rock...
The first half of the nineteenth century encompassed a dynamic transition period during which foodwa...
Archaeological excavations have been performed at the Shaeffer Farm site (36AR410), a rural residenc...
Interdisciplinary American Studies approach to the historical study of a small milling and farming c...
The purpose of this paper is to catalogue the twenty-two extant eighteenth century structures, plus ...
Being located between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River which served as the two major migration rou...
The goal of this thesis is to argue that rural colonial tenancy, in this case on the eighteenth-cent...
Frederick County, Maryland, in the early eighteenth century had three qualities which made it highly...
Historic rural settlement patterns and agricultural land utilization appear to have been partially i...
This study examines the industrial growth that took place in the Potomac River Valley from 1760 to 1...
Garrison, J. RitchieThis thesis is a geographic and temporal case study of the carpentry and joinery...
This dissertation research focuses on the case study area of Mount Union, Huntingdon County, Pennsyl...
Located sixty miles above Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley follows the seventy-mile path of the Lehig...
This study focuses on interpreting the archaeological evidence from the Huddleston House farmstead, ...
After the Civil War, new technologies and business structures transformed the American economy and s...
This paper is a study of Abraham Funk, a Shenandoah Valley Mennonite tombstone carver active in Rock...
The first half of the nineteenth century encompassed a dynamic transition period during which foodwa...
Archaeological excavations have been performed at the Shaeffer Farm site (36AR410), a rural residenc...
Interdisciplinary American Studies approach to the historical study of a small milling and farming c...
The purpose of this paper is to catalogue the twenty-two extant eighteenth century structures, plus ...
Being located between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River which served as the two major migration rou...
The goal of this thesis is to argue that rural colonial tenancy, in this case on the eighteenth-cent...
Frederick County, Maryland, in the early eighteenth century had three qualities which made it highly...
Historic rural settlement patterns and agricultural land utilization appear to have been partially i...
This study examines the industrial growth that took place in the Potomac River Valley from 1760 to 1...
Garrison, J. RitchieThis thesis is a geographic and temporal case study of the carpentry and joinery...
This dissertation research focuses on the case study area of Mount Union, Huntingdon County, Pennsyl...
Located sixty miles above Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley follows the seventy-mile path of the Lehig...
This study focuses on interpreting the archaeological evidence from the Huddleston House farmstead, ...
After the Civil War, new technologies and business structures transformed the American economy and s...
This paper is a study of Abraham Funk, a Shenandoah Valley Mennonite tombstone carver active in Rock...
The first half of the nineteenth century encompassed a dynamic transition period during which foodwa...
Archaeological excavations have been performed at the Shaeffer Farm site (36AR410), a rural residenc...